Health Care for the Elderly: Moral Dilemmas, Moral Choice (Handout)
Problem Assignment
Group A: The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, p. 743
Group B: DRGs, p. 749
Group C: Resource-Based Payment
for Lawyers, p. 753
All Groups: Health Care for Elderly:
After reading Health Care for the elderly discuss the following (a) In
your opinion, is it "the duty and responsibility of the
government of the United States. . . to assist our older people"
and "provide the best possible physical and mental health which
science can make available, without regard to economic status"?
(b) Should we ration health care according to age? (c) If current
trends continue, workers could be paying as much as 20% of their
income for Medicare and Social Security funding. Would you be willing
to pay that much from each of your pay check? which of three options do you most agree with at the
present time? Why?
